[As a further aside, except for a sad two years when I owned a Dodge Neon, I have always used inner-tubes mounted on steel wheels. For the past ten years the tires have been bias-ply. Alloy rims and radial tires are a passing fad, I tell you!]

As far as I can tell, most of what they mean by "lady repellant" is simply that the car in question isn't terribly practical for ferrying a passenger around. I'm pretty sure though, that the vast majority of those cars aren't their owner's only car (or if they are, the owner isn't terribly car-dependent).

Not that I'd be a good source of information on cars and dating; I'm still quite happily car-free (and married too).

I can't remember ever being impressed by a guy's car. Or even, like, interested in it. (I had a serious crush once on a guy who drove an ancient Chevette purchased for $300. Insofar as the car influenced my opinion of him at all, it was along the lines of "Hey, good deal!" In my defence, I was in high school at the time.) I am often mildly irritated at being required to clamber, leap, or pole-vault into the passenger seat of a vehicle apparently built for persons over twelve feet high, but on the other hand the drivers of said vehicles are offering me a lift out of the kindness of their hearts, so I'm hardly going to complain about it.

Quite frankly I think if you're depending on your vehicle to attract a mate (of any gender), you're probably doing it wrong ...